1. gripping - Noun
2. gripping - Adjective
3. gripping - Verb
Derived from grip
4. gripping - Adjective Satellite
capable of arousing and holding the attention
Source: WordNetYou spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time. Jim Bouton
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. David Brin
The lake-beings about him drew daggers and moved upon Kull. Then the king laughed and set his back against a column, gripping his sword hilt until the muscles stood out on his right arm in great ridges. "This is a game I understand, ghosts," he laughed. Robert E. Howard
I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up. Christopher Paolini
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. Carlisle Floyd
Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea. German Proverb